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The pkgsrc-2011Q1 Branch
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The pkgsrc developers are happy to announce the new pkgsrc-2011Q1
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branch, which has support for even more packages than previous
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branches. Some major packages have also been updated in this release.
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At the same time, the pkgsrc-2010Q4 branch has been deprecated, and
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continuing engineering starts on the pkgsrc-2011Q1 branch.
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Some highlights of the new pkgsrc-2011Q1 branch are:
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+ MirBSD support was added to pkgsrc; see
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http://www.mirbsd.org/pkgsrc.htm for details
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+ We're aiming to make this the last branch to support non-DESTDIR packages.
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We have almost finished the transition to DESTDIR installation, where
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a staging directory is used to make a binary package, which is then
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managed by the pkg_install tools.
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+ GNOME has been mostly updated to version 2.32.0, KDE4 to 4.5.5.
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+ The conversion from the last teTeX distribution to texlive
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(currently 2010) is still in progress.
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+ png was updated to the newest stable 1.5 branch.
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+ Some packages still using GTK 1 were removed; we're in the process
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of fading out support for it.
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+ Modern ada packages were added, like gnat-aux
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+ Other notable changes include
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+ We bid a fond thanks, and farewell, to some old favourites,
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mostly gtk1 users.
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+ The addition of some interesting, pertinent, and shiny
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packages such as window (:-) - brought over from NetBSD's
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src archive), many tex packages, most gmpc plugins.
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+ Notable updates to packages such as roundcube, tmux,
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shotwell, jpeg, png, gbrainy, ikiwiki, scmgit, opera, xchm,
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nmap, sqlite3, finch/pidgin, dovecot2, mercurial, unrar,
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clamav, ntop, xz, many many ruby packages, lots of Linux
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emulation support packages, quvi, kid3, jabberd2, gnucash,
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pkgin, exiv2, vlc, mkvtoolnix, kdbg, monotone, libzip,
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boost, wesnoth, gnumeric, unison, postfix, mldonkey, gcc44,
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wordpress, ncurses, samba, firefox, seamonkey, thunderbird,
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curl, bluefish, vala, bash, p7zip, php53, exim, sudo, atf,
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and filezilla.
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+ The "Package of the Quarter" award is hereby awarded to dovecot2,
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nominated by Matthias Scheler.
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The list of platforms supported by pkgsrc is AIX, BSD/OS, Darwin (Mac
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OS X), DragonFly BSD, FreeBSD, Haiku, HP/UX, IRIX, Interix, Linux,
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MirBSD, NetBSD, OpenIndiana, OSF1, OpenBSD, QNX, and SunOS (Solaris). We
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are aware that support for some platforms is at a more mature stage
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than others, and would like to encourage feedback from users and
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developers on our more esoteric platforms.
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+ Continuing engineering on the "stable" branches of pkgsrc continues
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to work well, and our release engineering team has done a marvelous
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job in pulling up changes to the stable branch. Our thanks go to
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Matthias Scheler, Steven Drake, S.P.Zeidler, and Eric Schnoebelen
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for all the hard work they do in sanity checking pullup requests, and
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managing the stable branches in pkgsrc.
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+ Constant bulk building on a number of platforms has improved our
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ability to identify potential areas of concern, and to correct them
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sooner. It has also improved our ability to make binary packages
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available, and we are working on ways to improve this further. For
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more information, please refer to the pkgsrc-bulk mailing list,
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archives available at
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http://mail-index.netbsd.org/pkgsrc-bulk/
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+ The number of packages has grown to 10973; the number of
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supported platforms is currently 17. NetBSD, on all its supported
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architectures, is considered to be one pkgsrc platform.
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As always, we'd like to encourage users of the packages collection to
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audit for security problems at least every day using "pkg_admin audit"
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- this will provide notification of any packages which are vulnerable
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to exploit. pkg_admin is part of the pkg_install tools.
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The pkgsrc-security team do a marvelous job in tracking notifications
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of vulnerabilities in packages, and disseminating this information,
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and our sincere thanks go to them for this essential work.
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We'd also really appreciate it if people would install the
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pkgsrc/pkgtools/pkgsurvey package, and then run the pkgsurvey script
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for us. This will forward us a list of the packages installed on that
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machine, and the operating system and release level of the operating
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system. The results will be kept confidential, but the output will
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help us analyse the packages that are most used.
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The source tar files for the new branch can be found at:
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http://downloads.pkgsrc.org/
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or
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http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q1/pkgsrc.tar.gz
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or
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http://ftp.NetBSD.org/pub/pkgsrc/pkgsrc-2011Q1/pkgsrc.tar.bz2
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You can also use the "pkgsrc-2011Q1" tag to check it out yourself from
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anoncvs.NetBSD.org or any of the mirrors.
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Thomas Klausner
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On behalf of the pkgsrc developers
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